LOST is a student project that aims to show how 7 million people can connect to each other. It's also a game, and is trying to reach the highest number of players for any game, ever.

To play LOST you have to find an invitation. An invitation is an internet address. There are invitations on the internet, and in the real world. They could be anywhere – on web pages, inside book covers, written in chalk on a pavement or across a beach in the sand.

Curious? Let me invite you then.Be fast though, there are only 2 days left.

Out of 5.267.437 women in Belgium, 8159 are called Irma. The peak was in 1922 with 315 births, or 4 % of the total number of births. 90 % of women in Belgium with the name Irma are born after 1914. (Source: Wegener DM)

In exactly the past 5 years there were 13 girls that got the name Irma in Flanders, 4 of them were born in the province of Antwerp, and 3 of them in the last year. (Source: Kind en Gezin)

At the beginning of 2001, 6.970 women in France were called Irma. The record was set in 1901, with 1.013 girl that were named Irma. (Source: MeilleursPrenoms.com)

On Prénoms.com you can see what your name looks like in hieroglyphs (the first is Irma, the second Morgaine):

Though the name Irma creates the urge to be creative and original, we call attention to the challenge of controlling temper as a result of a highly intense, dissatisfied, and restless quality. This name, when combined with the last name, can frustrate happiness, contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses or accidents to the head, worry and mental tension.

Your first name of Irma has given you energy, drive, and ambition, but also an almost excessively strong-willed and independent nature. While you are creative, inventive, and ingenious in practical matters, and always ready to initiate and promote new undertakings, you often experience difficulty in bringing your undertakings to a successful conclusion because of your own changing interests or changing circumstances.

The meaning of Irma is not clear. The girl's name Irma i-rma, ir-ma is pronounced IR-ma. It is of Old German origin, and its meaning is "universal, complete". Short form of names like Ermintrude. Irma has 6 variant forms: Erma, Ermengard, Irmina, Irmine, Irmgard and Irmgarde. Irma is also said to have a Latin origin, meaning "nobel". In Sanskrit the meaning is "movement, wind". In the West it is seen as a feminine name though as a Hindu name it is exclusively male and mentioned as an alternative name for Surya. Also see Wikipedia's entry for Irma (name).

Finally, What's in a Name? is the story of some body modification enthusiasts who have changed their names.

Perhaps it's because right now I feel exhausted, not having slept well recently (mmm … recently? it's a recurrent thing), caught in pre – during – post birthday depressing feelings, and fed up with … well, never mind. I wasn't tagged to whine for 8 paragraphs or anything.

Let's try:

I once found someone dead. A young man, not even in his twenties. He lived in the apartment building I used to live.

I tried to save someone from a cocaine addiction (not the above mentionded guy), but failed. I brought him to the hospital several times, I took care of him when he went to rehab, visiting him each and every day. I put up with his lies, and promises. Sometimes he seemed to be doing better, but always he fell back. At a certain point I decided I really couldn't help him. It hurt.

I used to have a babysitter that died on the soccer field from a heart attack, at age thirtysomething, leaving behind a wife and two small children.

I've often contemplated suicide, but never found the courage.

I am often torn between several contradicting thoughts, options or possibilities.

I wanted to play ice hockey but my mom didn't let me.

I wish I could live in an alternate society with the people I love or think I love (both online and offline). Get some land, and construct some form of community from scratch. Slow food, high tech and with plenty of possibilities for all to explore.

I am able to feel deeply for someone I've never met face to face (well, not yet anyway) and to me that's not a weird thing at all.